North Korea claims it has successfully placed a military spy satellite into orbit. The North’s space authorities said in a statement Wednesday that its space launch vehicle placed the Malligyong-1 satellite into orbit on Tuesday night.
If you feel like it you can go down the amateur satellite tracking rabbithole. There is a blog run by a guy in Holland sattrack blogspot or something like that, I used to follow. He pretty much can tell you way more than you want to know about any satellite.
I wonder what the capabilities of this satellite are. Knowing NK, it might just be a guy in a steel drum holding a disposable camera.
Without any sort of space suit, either. Just a frozen corpse with a little yellow Kodiak camera floating around in a barrel.
If you feel like it you can go down the amateur satellite tracking rabbithole. There is a blog run by a guy in Holland sattrack blogspot or something like that, I used to follow. He pretty much can tell you way more than you want to know about any satellite.
The DPRK has the technological capability for ICBMs. Regardless of everything else, their technical skills should not be underestimated.
Russia, the US, China, France, the UK, India, Israel, and Iran. That’s some rarified air the DPRK is standing with.